China’s Ministry of Commerce has announced that the 10th China International Consumer Goods Fair will be held on June 8-12, 2011 in Ningbo. According to MOFCOM, the China International Consumer Goods Fair is the largest professional international consumer goods fair in China.
China's foreign exchange regulator recently announced that it would spread a program from previously trial regions to the entire nation, allowing exporters, beginning January 1, 2011, to keep their revenues overseas. The program started as a trial plan on October 1, and was only applied to Beijing Municipality, Guangdong, Shandong and Jiangsu provinces, the State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE) said in a statement on its website. Under the program, qualified Chinese exporters would be allowed to hold their foreign currency earnings in overseas accounts, SAFE said. Each export company can hold up to five overseas accounts and was free to decide on the length of time that it wanted to keep its income offshore or when to return the funds to China.
China has confirmed its international commitment to guarantee the quality of its bulk exports, a senior official in the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine recently announced. Wang Xin, director of the administration's department for supervision of inspections, said the country was committed to a range of actions, including enhancing cooperation with the international community, to guarantee the supervision and inspection of bulk export commodities.
China’s Ministry of Commerce has announced that the China International Auto Supplies Sourcing Fair will be held on August 26-28, 2011 in Shanghai. According to MOFCOM, the China International Auto Supplies Sourcing Fair is the leading event for the automotive aftermarket in China.
China's Ministry of Commerce has announced that it has set China's first round of 2011 rare earth export quotas at 14,446 tonnes. The quota was down 11.4% year on year compared with the 16,304 tonnes in the first round of last year, according to previous ministry statements. With around 30% of the world's rare earth reserves, China supplies 90% of global demand.
Mexico's Diario Oficial of December 29, 2010 lists notices from the Secretary of the Economy as follows:
A Chinese official from the Ministry of Commerce has announced that China will actively promote auto imports over the next five years to help the country restructure and upgrade its auto industry. Qian Jingfen, an official in charge of imports at the MOC's Industrial Department, told an auto imports forum in Beijing that the auto import-promotion strategy will be implemented during the 12th Five-year Plan period (2011-2015) through corresponding financial, taxation and trade policies. Qian said China will encourage the imports of advanced auto equipment, key technologies and components of energy-saving and new-energy vehicles in the period.
In the December 30, 2010 edition of the Official Journal of the European Union, the following trade-related notices were posted:
The Government of Canada issued the following notices on December 22, 2010:
The Government of Canada issued the following notices on December 26, 2010: